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A. M. RICHARDSON;

AUTOMATIC FAN.

Patented Sept. 8, 1885,

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1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTCE.

ALISTER M. RICHARDSON, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE E. EDWARDS, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOMATIC FAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,862, dated September 8,1885.

I Application filed .l'uly 3, 1885. (No model.)

1' all whom, it nwty concern: In place of holding a fan on each end of the Be it known that I, ALISTER M. RIOHARD- lever B, a fan can be held on one end, and a soN, of Charleston, county of Charleston, weight, V, on the other end.

South Carolina, have invented a new and Im- As the shafts H J do not extend entirely 5 proved Automatic Fan, of which the following across the case, a larger fly-wheel, N, can be is a-full, clear, and exact description. mounted on the inner end of the shaft H, and

The object of my invention is to provide thus a very regular movement is obtained. certain new and useful improvements in the Wis a guard to prevent the springs B from automatic fan, for which United States Letbinding or pressing against the shaft D when 10 ters Patent No. 288,119, were issued to me on they expand. the 6th day of November, 1883. The operation is as follows: The spring B The invention consists, mainly, in pivoting revolves the wheel N, and from the same the the standard in which the frame is pivoted so lever B is swung up and down. The fans T as to permit of adjusting the saidstandard at create a very pleasant breeze. As it is frer 5 different inclinations. quently necessary and desirable to have them Reference is to be had to the accompanying deliver cool air at a certain spot or place-for drawings, forming part of this specification, example, in sick-rooms it is very desirable in which similar letters of reference indicate to have the standards Q adjustable. The said corresponding parts in both figures. standards can be swung to the rightor left, as

20 Figure 1 is a front view of my improved may be desired, without interfering with the '70 automatic fan, parts being broken out. Fig. operation, as the shaft of wheel N and the 2 is an end view of the same, parts being in turning point of the standard Qare the same. section. The standard Q can be locked at the desired In the case A two clock springs, B, are inclination by a latch, a, on one of the bars of 25 mounted on spindles C, journaled in the sides the standard, and engaging with oneot' the of the case, and the said springs drive a pinsides of the casing. ion, D, on the same shaft D,with a cog-wheel, Having thus described my invention, Iclaim E, engaging with a pinion, F, on the same as newand desireto secure by Letters Patent-- shaft F, with a cog-wheel, G, engaging with 1. The combination, with a case, springs, 0 a pinion, J, on a shaft, J, carrying a cogand a train of gearing in the same, of a drivwheel, K, engaging with a pinion, H, 011 a ing-wheel operated by the train of gearing, shaft H. 1 standards mounted to swing concentrically The shafts H and J are journaled in one with the driving-wheel, a rocking arm for car, side of the case and in cross-pieces L. rying one or more fans pivoted to the stand- 5 On the inner end of the shaft H a wheel or ard, and a rod for operating the rocking arm 83 disk, N, is mounted, from which a crank-pin, from the driving-wheel, togetherwith a latch 0, projects, to which a connecting-rod, P, is or retaining device to hold the standard at its pivoted. point of adjustment, substantially as herein On the. shaft H, and on a pivot forming 21. shown and described o continuation of said shaft, a standard, Q, is 2. The combination,with the case A, of the 0 pivoted,which is formed of two pieces divergshort shafts H J, the cross-pieces L, a train ing toward their lower ends, and each having of gearing in the case A, the wheel N on the a circular piece, Q, on the lower end. shaft H, the pivoted standard Q, the lever B,

Between the upper ends a lever, B, is pivpivoted on the same, and the rod P, for con- 4 5 oted,which is connected a short distance from necting the lever B with the wheel N, substan- '5 7 its pivot by the rod P with the crank-pin O. tially as herein shown and described.

An aperture is formed in each end of the ALISTER M. RICHARDSON. lever B for receiving the handle of a fan, T, \Vitnesses:

which handle can be held in place by a bind- S. G. PINOKNEY, 5o ing-screw, U, H- G. MAZY. 

